Restaurant outdoor seating saved after Barking & Dagenham withdraws enforcement notice

Just Planning has persuaded Barking & Dagenham Council to withdraw an enforcement notice requiring the removal of an outdoor seating area at an Italian restaurant in Whitebarn Lane, Dagenham. Our client had recently taken over the lease of a successful local restaurant. The restaurant itself is relatively small inside, and the outdoor seating area was […]
Appeal against a refusal of planning permission for a two-storey side and single-storey front and rear extension

We are experts in planning appeals for homeowner extensions and this one was typical of the kind of work we do. Barking & Dagenham Council had refused planning permission for these extensions because they thought it would harm the special character of the Becontree Estate. The Becontree Estate was built at the beginning of the […]
Enforcement notice quashed after appeal against conversion of upper floors into three flats

London Borough of Barking and Dagenham served an enforcement notice against our client in relation to the upper floors above a shop at 683A Green Lane, Dagenham. The council alleged that the flat above the shop had been subdivided without planning permission into multiple self-contained units of accommodation. The notice required our client to stop […]